I gave away half of my shrimp already and kept the deep red ones, I added a couple of painted reds to keep the gene pool different and in hopes of getting more painted reds. So, I can't part with the current shrimp now sorry.

Would I be able to get some from you in the future?

Also, does the soil you use not need a cap? Does it stir? Do shrimp do ok walking on it?

Also, does the soil you use not need a cap? Does it stir? Do shrimp do ok walking on it?

If I get a good survival rate and learn how to ship live animals, I will keep it mind.

This soil I'm using doesn't need a cap on it, it's dirt/soil mixed with other ingredients then it is cooked/kilned to get its shape.
The first couple of days it was cloudy but then all of the cloudiness just settles down to the substrate.

This product is good cause when I uproot plants it doesn't stir up the substrate
that much, causing lots of cloudiness.

Update time, 2 weeks past since I setup the tank again, what I thought was going to be low tech might make a turn for the worse or good.

Got my other regulator fixed and filled up my co2 tank and set it up

On to the diatom bloom and add HC in, I took out all of the floaters at this point now.

I decided to add a guppy for a fish in cycle.
Bad mistake though because it gave birth during the cycle now there's 3 babies in there

I'm going to start on my ferts in a couple days, even though it isn't recommended since the aquasoil gives off a lot of the nutrients in the first couple of weeks.
Here's the ferts I will be using, these were what was left over from my other tanks since I start dosing dry ferts.

Ever since I took out my floaters, I've started a bloom of hair algae. I'm hand picking most of it out now, and spot treating with h202.

I ran out of flourish excel, so I couldn't double dose the tank. I'm gonna go to the medical supply and pick up some metricide. It's way cheaper than buying excel, at $14 a quart you can mix up 2 quarts of excel.

Hc is not doing so well as I thought either, it's always uprooting itself. I should have done a dry start but I didn't have time to wait for a month for it to fully root in.

I might give up on the HC if it fully dies off, and try out those petsmart tissue cultured staurogyne repens. For now I have to wait and observe.